What Is Included in The Term

Upon searching in the dictionaries, you would find that the term "medical negligence’ is a legal term that also means professional carelessness in the health field. This includes all the carelessness and in competencies showed by the healthcare service provider. This healthcare provider could be anyone ranging from a doctor to a nurse, therapist, or anyone related to the medicinal world. Across the globe, daily, there are several cases of carelessness, where families and patients have to suffer the loss in different forms.

If we see the legal aspect of this term, we’ll observe that law has always taken this very seriously. It is also given the name of medical malpractice and often, people have to suffer the consequences. The legal aspect of this term says that although, the damage caused by such a malpractice is reversible, but the one who has suffered is liable to get compensated accordingly. This would equal the things and bring the matter to equality and justice.

What is included in medical malpractice?

According to the experts of medical negligence Schofields, because it is a broad term, the things included are also widespread. These malpractices are basically of two types.

Mis-diagnosis

• According to compensation lawyers, the first category includes mis-diagnosis. This means that the service provider has failed to diagnose the condition properly and as a result, the condition worsened or he eventually died.

• Another case of mis-diagnosis includes the condition where doctor prescribed the wrong medicine to the patient and as as result, his condition worsened or he died.

• Another very easy example of mis-diagnosis is a prescription error made by the doctor where as a result, patient’s condition worsened or he died.

Surgical procedure errors

• According to family lawyers, surgical procedure errors are the second category of the term "medical negligence Schofields"

• Often it happens that because of some surgical malpractice or error, the patient’s condition worsens and his life gets under threat.

• In some cases, it might also happen that insufficient safety measures are taken during or post-surgery and this puts the patient’s life at stake. This is also a part of surgical medical negligence.

• Surgery related malpractices also includes the events, where doctors took too much of the risk and failed. As a result, the patient went under the threat of death and if this happens, it can be filed under surgical malpractice.

Delivery room malpractices

Laws made by almost all the countries of the world have never ignored or overlooked the delivery room malpractices taking place in their respective countries. These malpractices means putting two lives (mother’s & child’s) in danger together and because of this, the penal code considers it to be a more serious thing than mis-diagnosis or surgical errors.

•   Often it has seen that because of these errors, the child faces irreversible damages at the time of birth.

• In worst cases, it has been observed that the mother may suffer a paralysis during birth and this is a serious carelessness shown.

• Mostly delivery related malpractices occur due to the department being understaffed or ill-equipped to handle the situation. This is a severe thing, as both can cause serious risk for the infant and the mother and put their lives at stake.